Legalines: Torts 
Subtitle: Adaptable to Sixth Edition of Franklin Casebook
Publisher: Harcourt Legal & Professional Pubns
Published: November 1998
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780159002407
First sentence: The body of law known as Torts is concerned with the allocation of losses resulting from the activities of people; it is an attempt to balance the utility of a particular type of conduct against the harm that it may cause, judged by the prevailing social and economic attitudes of the time.